Working-classes Studies and Cultural Studies in Networked Age: Today’s Reflections on Learning to Labour

ZHENG Biao

Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2015, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (10) : 37-48.

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Working-classes Studies and Cultural Studies in Networked Age: Today’s Reflections on Learning to Labour

  • Zheng Biao, Department of Sociology of Peking University, Email: zhengbiao1031@ gmail.com
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The new working-class in China have become a significant force. In the meantime, China witnesses the rise of the networked society. Under this background, the Internet cultural production of new working-class and social reproduction have become essential issues. Learning to Labour by Paul Willis which combined cultural studies and working-class studies provides us with abundant theoretical resources on these issues. Facing with the changes of location and era, based on the research on the Smarts, this paper aims to reveal the possibility of application and innovations of Learning to Labour’s theory from the aspects of the transition of research objects and the transformation of media and the social context.

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Social Transformation / Networked Age / Learning to Labour / Working-class Studies / Cultural Studies

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ZHENG Biao. Working-classes Studies and Cultural Studies in Networked Age: Today’s Reflections on Learning to Labour[J]. Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication. 2015, 37(10): 37-48

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